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Tornado Warning 5, NWS North Platte, NE

June 25, 1989Lincoln County, Nebraska

NWS North Platte, NE issued this tornado warning at Jun 25, 1989, 8:04 PM CDT for Lincoln County, Nebraska. It was in force for 26 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Jun 25, 1989, 8:04 PM CDT (01:04 UTC)
Expired: Jun 25, 1989, 8:30 PM CDT
In force: 26 min
Issued by: NWS North Platte, NE
Area: Whole counties

County Lincoln County, NE

The radar

The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jun 25, 8:20 PM CDT	Tornado F3	Lincoln, NE

NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in. Storm Data before 1996 records only tornadoes, thunderstorm wind and hail.

The nearest sounding before it

N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 1.1 hours before the alert went out and 15 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 2940 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -21 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 971 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 55 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 233 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 363 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 6.9
Supercell composite: 28.2

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KLBF 260104
TORLBF
NEC111-260130-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED/EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED 
TORNADO WARNING 
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
804 PM CDT SUN JUN 25 1989

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING 
EFFECTIVE UNTIL 830 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING 
COUNTIES

   IN THE SOUTHWEST PART OF NEBRASKA
      THE CITY OF NORTH PLATTE...EASTERN LINCOLN

AT 8PM CDT PUBLIC REPORTS A FUNNEL CLOUDS 2 SOUTH AND THREE
WEST OF NORTH PLATTE.  MOVING NE.  INCLUDES BRADY...
MAXWELL.

IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE IS IN
A BASEMENT.  GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE.
IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...FIND SHELTER IN AN INTERIOR ROOM
SUCH AS A CLOSET ON THE LOWEST FLOOR.  USE BLANKETS...PILLOWS...
OR CUSHIONS TO COVER YOUR BODY.  AVOID WINDOWS.

REPORTS OF TORNADOS OR TORNADO DAMAGE SHOULD BE GIVEN TO A LAW
ENFORCEMENT AGENCY FOR RELAY TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this tornado warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 25, 6:26 PM CDT, 1 hour 38 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
620 PM CDT SUN JUN 25 1989

AT 615 PM CDT A THUNDERSTORM HAS DEVELOPED ON THE HITCHCOCK AND DUNDY
COUNTY LINE ABOUT 60 MILES SOUTHWEST OF NORTH PLATTE OR 10 MILES
NORTHWEST OF STRATTON.  THIS THUNDERSTORM IS EXPECTED TO INTENSIFY AND
MOVE EAST POSSIBLY PRODUCING SMALL HAIL.

OTHER THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO BEGIN BREAKING OUT OVER SOUTHWEST
NEBRASKA WITHIN THE NEXT HOUR WITH HAYS...FRONTIER AND RED WILLOW
COUNTIES TO EXPERIENCE THE EARLY ONSLAUGHT.  NO WATCHES OR WARNINGS
ARE CURRENTLY IN EFFECT FOR SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA BUT RESIDENTS SHOULD
MONITOR ANY DEVELOPMENT CLOSELY AS CONDITIONS ARE RIPE FOR SOME
ROUGH WEATHER.

MONSON

The office that day

Everything else NWS North Platte, NE issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 25, 8:14 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LBF	Chase, Hayes	31 min
Jun 25, 8:27 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LBF	Lincoln	33 min
Jun 25, 8:35 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LBF	Chase	25 min
Jun 25, 8:41 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LBF	Custer	34 min
Jun 25, 9:05 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LBF	Custer	25 min
Jun 25, 9:11 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LBF	Hayes, Lincoln	34 min
Jun 25, 9:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Brown, Rock	44 min
Jun 25, 9:36 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LBF	Chase	39 min
Jun 25, 9:36 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LBF	Lincoln, Logan	39 min
Jun 25, 9:50 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LBF	Lincoln	55 min
Jun 25, 10:16 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LBF	Custer	29 min
Jun 25, 10:43 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LBF	Garfield, Loup	32 min
Jun 26, 12:43 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Holt	47 min
Jun 26, 1:33 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	LBF	Garfield	27 min

Nearby

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Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.